Blue Collar Conservatives: Recommitting to an America That Works (22 page)

Of course, in a life with a more than full-time job and seven children to raise, none of this would be possible without
my soul mate and encourager in chief, Karen. During this time she was also engaged in a book project, so her willingness to make time for me is all the more amazing and appreciated.

NOTES

Introduction

1
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David Horowitz, “Horowitz: Obama Still Wants to Fundamentally Transform America,”
Washington Times
, September 27, 2012,
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/sep/27/obama-still-wants-to-fundamentally-transform-ameri/
.

2
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John McCormick and Lisa Lerer, “Santorum Says Romney ‘Uniquely Unqualified’ to Tackle Obama,”
Bloomberg.com
, February 27, 2012,
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-27/santorum-romney-uniquely-unqualified-to-confront-obama.html
.

3
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See, for example: “Krauthammer: Romney Will Win, Obama Has Nothing to Run On,” Real Clear Politics, July 25, 2012,
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/07/25/krauthammer_romney_will_win_in_november_obama_has_nothing_to_run_on.html
.

4
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Henry Olsen, “What Voters Want: A President Who Cares,”
New York Post
, November 9, 2012,
http://nypost.com/2012/11/09/what_voters_want_a_prez_who_cares
.

5
.
     
Evann Gastaldo, “
Daily Show
: Romney Like the ‘Man Who Fired Your Dad,’” Newser, December 13, 2011,
http://www.newser.com/story/135301/daily-show-video-mitt-romney-like-the-man-who-just-fired-your-dad.html
.

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John F. Kennedy, “Remarks of Senator John F. Kennedy, Municipal Auditorium, Canton, Ohio,” American Presidency Project, University of California, Santa Barbara, transcript, speech given September 27, 1960,
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=74231
.

7
.
     
See Pete Wehner, “Demographics and the GOP,” Commentary, February 6, 2014,
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2014/02/06/demographics-and-the-gop/
. The citations that follow are to the sources from which Mr. Wehner drew the data that he assembled in his posting on Commentary.

8
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Ronald Brownstein, “Bad Bet: Why Republicans Can’t Win with Whites Alone,”
National Journal
, September 5, 2013,
http://www.nationaljournal.com/magazine/bad-bet-why-republicans-can-t-win-with-whites-alone-20130905
.

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Ibid.

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Sean Trende, “The Case of the Missing White Voters, Revisited,” Real Clear Politics, June 21, 2013,
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/06/21/the_case_of_the_missing_white_voters_revisited_118893.html
.

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Joel Kotkin, “Off the Rails: How the Party of Lincoln Became the Party of Plutocrats,” New Geography, November 23, 2012,
http://www.newgeography.com/content/003253-off-rails-how-party-lincoln-became-party-plutocrats
.

Chapter 1: Blue Collar Conservatives Really Did Build It

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Raj Chetty, “Is the United States Still a Land of Opportunity? Recent Trends in Intergenerational Mobility,”
Equality of Opportunity Project
, January 2014,
http://obs.rc.fas.harvard.edu/chetty/mobility_trends.pdf
.

2
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Robert Samuelson, “The Social Mobility Muddle,”
Washington Post
, January 29, 2014,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/robert-samuelson-the-mobility-muddle/2014/01/29/ad6ebef6-8929-11e3-916e-e01534b1e132_story.html
.

3
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Nancy Dillon, “Fewer Americans Than Ever Are Getting Married: Poll,”
New York Daily News
, December 14, 2011,
http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/americans-married-poll-article-1.991402
; and Michelle Castillo, “Almost Half of First Babies in U.S. Born to Unwed Mothers,” CBS News, March 15, 2013,
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/almost-half-of-first-babies-in-us-born-to-unwed-mothers/
.

Chapter 2: Restoring the American Dream for Workers

1
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Luigi Zingales, “When Business and Government Are Bedfellows,”
Economist
, August 23, 2012,
http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2012/08/quick-study-luigi-zingales-crony-capitalism?zid=316&ah=2f6fb672faf113fdd3b11cd1b1bf8a77
.

2
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Zingales, “Crony Capitalism and the Crisis of the West,” June 6, 2012,
Wall Street Journal
,
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303665904577450071884712152
.

3
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James Truslow Adams,
The Epic of America
, reprint (New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, 2012).

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Rich Morin and Seth Motel, “A Third of Americans Now Say They Are in the Lower Classes,” Pew Research, September 10, 2012,
http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2012/09/10/a-third-of-americans-now-say-they-are-in-the-lower-classes/
.

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Dean Schabner, “Americans Work More Than Anyone,” May 1, 2013, ABC News,
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=93364
.

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David Lightman, “McClatchy-Marist Poll: American Dream Seen as Out of Reach,” February 13, 2014,
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/02/13/218026/mcclatchy-marist-poll-american.html
.

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“Post–Miller Center Poll: American Dream and Economic Struggles,”
Washington Post
, November 25, 2013,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/polling/postmiller-center-poll-american-dream-economic/2013/11/25/b83f1c1a-2892-11e3-8ab3-b5aacc9e1165_page.html
.

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Ron Haskins, Julia B. Isaacs, and Isabel V. Sawhill,
Getting Ahead or Losing Ground
:
Economic Mobility in America
(Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, February 2008),
http://www.brookings.edu/research/reports/2008/02/economic-mobility-sawhill
.

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Kelly Musick and Ann Meier, “Are Both Parents Always Better Than One?,” Community and Rural Development Institute, Cornell University, April 2009,
http://www.human.cornell.edu/pam/outreach/upload/parentalconflict.pdf
.

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Ned Smith, “The New Definition of the American Dream,”
Business-NewsDaily
, Yahoo!, September 22, 2012,
http://news.yahoo.com/definition-american-dream-105253284.html
.

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Barbara Hollingsworth, “Barbara Walters: ‘I Regret Not Having More Children,’” CNS News, December 23, 2013,
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/barbara-hollingsworth/barbara-walters-i-regret-not-having-more-children
.

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Julia La Roche, “Warren Buffett: This Is How You Know You’re Really Successful,” Business Insider, May 2, 2013,
http://www.businessinsider.com/live-warren-buffett-talking-about-women-and-work-2013-5
.

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Sarah Burd-Sharps and Kristen Lewis,
One in Seven
:
Ranking Youth Disconnection in the 25 Largest Metro Areas
, Measure of America, September 2012,
http://www.measureofamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/MOA-One_in_Seven09-14.pdf
.

Chapter 3: A GOP That Stands Up for Everyone

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“History of Federal Individual Income Bottom and Top Bracket Rates,” National Taxpayers Union, accessed February 2014,
http://www.ntu.org/tax-basics/history-of-federal-individual-1.html
.

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“College Enrollment and Work Activity of 2012 High School Graduates,” Bureau of Labor Statistics, April 17, 2013,
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/hsgec.nr0.htm
.

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Stephanie J. Ventura, “Changing Patterns of Nonmarital Childbearing in the United States,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, May 2009,
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db18.htm
; and Joyce A. Martin, “Births: Final Data for 2010,”
National Vital Statistics Report
, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, August 18, 2012,
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr61/nvsr61_01.pdf
.

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Ana Marie Cox, “The Amazing Reformation of Mitt and Ann Romney,” Awl, December 5, 2012,
http://www.theawl.com/2012/12/the-amazing-reformation-of-mitt-and-ann-romney
.

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Charities Aid Foundation, “World Giving Index 2013,” Charities Aid Foundation Online, December 2013,
https://www.cafonline.org/PDF/WorldGivingIndex2013_1374AWEB.pdf
.

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Arthur Brooks,
Who Really Cares: The Surprising Truth About Compassionate Conservatism
(New York: Basic Books, 2007).

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Josh Gerstein, “Romney 2011 Taxes: Mitt Gives More to Charity Than President Obama, Joe Biden,” Politico, September 21, 2012,
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0912/81529.html
.

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Republican National Committee, “Republican Platform of 1856,” American Presidency Project, June 18, 1856,
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=29619
; and “House Vote #182 IN 1964,” Govtrack. us, July 2, 1964,
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/88-1964/h182
.

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David Catron, “Republicans and Women’s Rights: A Brief Reality Check,”
American Spectator
, April 30, 2012,
http://spectator.org/articles/35608/republicans-and-womens-rights-brief-reality-check
; and “The Passage of the 19th Amendment,”
New York Times
, June 5,
1919, available on the Modern History Sourcebook, Fordham University,
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1920womensvote.html
.

Chapter 4: Holes in the Boat

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Kathie Obradovich, “Does a Rising Tide Lift All Boats? Santorum Challenges GOP Economic Focus,”
Iowa Politics
(blog),
DesMoinesRegister.com
, August 10, 2013,
http://blogs.desmoinesregister.com/dmr/index.php/2013/08/10/does-a-rising-tide-lift-all-boats-santorum-challenges-gop-econmic-focus/article
.

2
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Nathan Lewis, “Flat Tax vs. Fair Tax vs. Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 Plan,”
Forbes
, October 13, 2011,
http://www.forbes.com/sites/nathan-lewis/2011/10/13/flat-tax-vs-fair-tax-vs-herman-cains-9-9-9-plan/
.

3
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Richard Ebeling, “The Lasting Legacy of the Reagan Revolution,”
Freeman
, Foundation for Economic Education, July 1, 2004,
http://www.fee.org/the_freeman/detail/the-lasting-legacy-of-the-reagan-revolution
.

4
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Associated Press, “Widening Income Gap Hurts Economy, Survey Says,” NBC News, December 18, 2013,
http://www.nbcnews.com/business/widening-income-gap-hurting-economy-survey-says-2D11767020
; and “School Enrollment,” U.S. Census Bureau, October 2012, accessed January 29, 2014,
http://www.census.gov/hhes/school/data/cps/2012/tables.html
.

5
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“Reagan Government Is Not the Solution to Our Problem, Government Is the Problem,” YouTube video, from Ronald Reagan’s first inaugural address, uploaded February 4, 2009, by “deck0930,” accessed January 29, 2014,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ixNPplo-SU
.

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James Sherk, “Not Looking for Work: Why Labor Force Participation Has Fallen during the Recession,” Backgrounder Update 2722, Heritage Foundation, September 5, 2013,
http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2013/09/not-looking-for-work-why-labor-force-participation-has-fallen-during-the-recession
.

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“Income Inequality Grew Faster under Obama, according to One Measure,” Huffington Post, September 1, 2013,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/01income-inequality-obama_n_3853183.html
; and Morgan Korn, “More Proof That the Rich Are Getting Richer and the Poor Poorer,” Daily Ticker, Yahoo! Finance, October 10, 2013,
http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/more-proof-rich-getting-richer-poor-poorer-154916333.html
.

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Associated Press, “Widening Income Gap Hurts Economy, Survey Says.”

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David Brodwin, “Suffering under the Weight of Inequality,”
Economic Intelligence
(blog),
U
.
S
.
News & World Report
, September 12, 2013,
http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/economic-intelligence/2013/09/12/record-high-income-inequality-threatens-us-growth
.

10
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Annie Lowrey, “The Rich Get Richer through the Recovery,”
Economix
(blog),
New York Times
, September 10, 2013,
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/10/the-rich-get-richer-through-the-recovery/?_r=0
.